Mike Kerner wrote:
> I'm not a fan of sheets. I find myself doing constant scrolling
You're not using v9's PI? ;)
> because the property I'm looking for never seems to be on the screen,
> or if I'm changing multiple properties and messing with settings to
> see what the combination does, I'm constantly going up down up down,
> overshooting the property, having to scroll-scroll-scroll to get to
> the right spot.
True, prop sheets with views grouped by type and a Favorites view are best.
> You can't take advantage of the 2D space (think about the position tab
> in the PI as the most obvious example) to organize related properties.
That's one.
> You also can't use graphics or group boxes, shadows, colors, or
> backgrounds to make it clearer how properties are associated with each
> other.
Why not? Most sheets I've seen use the color/pat as the background for
the value, pretty much as we see them in LC's PI.
> Shortcuts to switch tabs in the PI would make navigating better, IMHO.
> Ctrl-right arrow or ctrl-left arrow, ctrl-1..n would make flipping
> between pages faster, but the layout and the proximity of the tabs to
> the properties now still makes navigating between multiple pages of
> properties for an object and fiddling with them much faster than a
> sheet does.
Do we even have a keyboard shortcut to move focus to the Inspector?
Back when I used to use Adobe products they used Cmd-, to shift focus to
their inspector.
Even if we do, though, since any palette has a global-ish scope how
would the developer using it know when a shortcut is handled by the
Inspector and when it's handled by their own app's menubars or other
shortcut-driven features?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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